[issue12970] os.walk() consider some symlinks as dirs instead of non-dirs

Akira Li added the comment: I've updated os.walk() documentation to mention that *dirnames* list includes symlinks to directories. To imitate the other two cases: - treat the symlinks as files: for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(top): dirs = [] for name in dirnames:

[issue12970] os.walk() consider some symlinks as dirs instead of non-dirs

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[issue12970] os.walk() consider some symlinks as dirs instead of non-dirs

Uwe Kleine-König added the comment: I like the function as it is documented, i.e. "filenames is a list of the names of the non-directory files in dirpath.". This includes all symlinks (in the followlinks=False cast at least). I'd say not including symlinks to directories but symlinks to files

[issue12970] os.walk() consider some symlinks as dirs instead of non-dirs

Nick Coghlan added the comment: This behaviour came up recently when implementing os.fwalk() [1]. There are problems with all 3 possible approaches (list as dirs, list as files, don't list at all) when followlinks is False. Since all alternatives are potentially surprising, the current behavi

[issue12970] os.walk() consider some symlinks as dirs instead of non-dirs

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[issue12970] os.walk() consider some symlinks as dirs instead of non-dirs

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